Ineos to expand Köln ethylene capacity
By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, June 16 -- Ineos Group Holdings Inc., Grangemouth, Scotland, plans to begin construction early next year on a €40 million expansion of the ethylene capacity at its olefins complex at Köln, Germany.
It will add a furnace to feed crack gas into separation parts of two naphtha crackers. Total ethylene capacity will increase to about 1.2 million tonnes/year from 1.1 million tonnes/year at present.
Total olefins capacity of the complex is 2.3 million tonnes/year.
The new ethylene will feed polyethylene production at Köln or move to other Ineos sites via the 495-km Aethylen Rohrleitungs Gesellschaft pipeline system in northwestern Europe.
Project managers Linde AG, Wiesbaden, Germany, and ABB Lummus, Houston, have begun basic engineering work.